DU Veterans Roll Call

[sarisataka]

17. I have read some Russian accounts of Stalingrad as well

as German. It is hard to conceive of the carnage they describe. In many cases people were reduced to animals fighting to survive until the next fight. Your FiL is a rare survivor of the battle but I don't think anyone would say he is 'lucky" to have survived.

Fred considers himself lucky that he was young enough to not get drafted to military service until the very end. He spent most of the war in a village small enough to not be a target. He avoided most of the horrors of the war, though he did go through some air raids and saw those so wounded they were sent home.